At the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Scott Pruitt dismissed half the scientists on a scientific review board. He wants to pack the board with industry-friendly appointees who won’t balk so much at polluting our country.

Greg Zimmerman, the deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, said canceling the meetings of the councils that advise the Bureau of Land Management “sends a clear signal that Secretary Zinke intends to make decisions behind closed doors and not through an open and transparent public process.”